A Reduced Complexity Quasi-1D Viterbi Detector

Rabi N. Panda¹, Sasmita Kumari Padhy², Siba P. Panigrahi³

¹National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Bhubaneswar, India.
²ITER, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India.
³Konark Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Bhubaneswar, India..

DOI: 10.4236/jsip.2011.21004                

Abstract

This paper develops a reduced complexity quasi-1D detector for optical storage devices and digital communication system. Superior performance of the proposed detector is evidenced by simulation results.

Keywords

Channel equalization, Viterbi Detector

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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